5?4 



H ]{ T 1 C D L T U R E 



XovembiT 17, 1917 



horticulture: 



roL. XXVI 



NOVEMBER 17, 1917 



NO. ZO 



ri 111 i>ii I II ^^ I i^K I \ ii\ 

 HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



147 Summer Street, Boston, Mas*. 



W M I ~ I I \t \ K I . I illtur and Miuuksrr 



\|l> K.KTISINU RATE8: 



IVr Inrli, SO locltr* to pagv $1.2fi 



I>l«rounr ttn ConlrnrtM for conMoculhr Inttrrllonii. an folluui*: 



Our liinnth i\ ^\\\\v%^ , .% |»rr rrtit.; tlirrr niiinlliM < I :( llnirn), 10 

 per oroC. : kiv munllln \M lllllri.), JU |»rr mit.; ullr > rlbr ^51! times), 

 SO pfT cent. 



Pace and luUf pace apiue, not eonacentWe, i*(e» en appUoatlon. 



Entrreil as apcoDd-clnaB innttcr December 8, IIKM, ot tbe t'oat OlBce 

 at BoatoD, Mnaa., under (lie Act of CooKrcaa of Marcb 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS 



Pag« 



COVKH ILLrSTKATION - Cleveluncl Flower Show 



CLEVEL.\ND KLOWKR SHOW— The Banquet, Illus- 

 trated — Commercial Kxhibitors — The Awards — Here 

 and There at the Flower Show 521-523 



THE EXHIBITIONS— New York— Philadelphia— Tarry- 

 town 525-526 



CLUBS A.ND SOCIETIES— National Association of 



Gardeners 523 



Gardeners' Cooperative Meeting — .American Rose 

 Society — New York Florists' Club — Meetings Next 

 ■Week — Chrysanthemum Society of America — Club 

 and Society Notes 52S-527 



SEED TRADE— Varying Bulb Receipts— Notes 528 



OBITL'.ARY— Peter Reis— Elijah Ashworth 528 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 New Flower Stores 530 



THE S. A. F. PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN 531 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, 



Pittsburgh 533 



Rochester. St. Louis 535 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 

 Boston, Pittsburgh, New York, St. Louis, Chicago. 

 Rochester 536-537 



DURING RECESS— Bowling Match at Cleveland— New 

 York and New Jersey Plant Growers 538 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Group of Rare Orchids — Illustration 526 



Catalogues Received — News Notes 528 



Personal — Visitors' Register 530 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 539 



New Corporations— Patent Granted 539 



Watch 

 your step 



We find a good many florists to be in "a 

 state of mind"'" legarding the unprece- 

 dented situation which confronts them 

 this season, such as insufBcient coal sup- 

 ply, cost of labor and other essentials, together -with 

 the uncertainty as to safe transportation of their 

 product.?, and the prospective attitude of the public 

 towards these commodities. But while solicitude under 

 such conditions is unavoidable and excusable, that is 

 not necessarily an evidence of pessimism. From what 

 ■we have seen and heard wherever the craft foregather, 

 the florist trade generally is showing a most commenda- 

 ble buoyancy and spirit in the face of much that is 

 abnormal and perfdexing. It becomes necessar)' now 

 more than ever that the florist should "watch his step" 

 in his dealings with the public and endeavor to avoid 

 any course which may tend to estrange the public es- 

 teem, stir up prejudice and invite antagonism. Fortu- 

 nately the people have been given plenty of opportunitj', 

 of late especially, to see and understand the better side 

 of the flower people in their free-hearted and spontane- 

 ous generositj-, individually and collectively, to the 

 Bed Cross and other philanthropic institutions and it is 

 to be hoped that the.?e credit marks in the florists' career 



Unfair 

 .nnd unnecessary 



may not be foruotleii by tlio |H;<»|ilt' when fniiatics un- 

 dertake to raise a hiuvniid-t^ry ugninKi Mi-called "non- 

 issi'iitiiils." 



It is said that in the annual free 

 ilistriliution of seed by o<)n^:ii'.">sinen 

 f(ir the coining season, flower seeds 

 will be oniiltetl "except when espe- 

 cially iTijiuv-icil by coiistiliients." Tliis will hnnlly be 

 interpreted as ii chnni;!' of heart on the juut of the con- 

 gr('s<nu'n, but rather a.s nuiking "a virtue out of neces- 

 sity."' since (Itiwer seeds are scarce and not obtainable 

 lis furmerly for this discredited practice. In this con- 

 lU'ctinn we note that besides tiie annual aii|>ro|iriation 

 of ap]troxiniately $.300,000 for the free distribution by 

 members of l'on;.'ri'ss, tliere lias been esjiecjally ap|iro])ri- 

 ated by Congress .$"2..'iOO,000 for the [pureliasc. storage 

 and distrilpiition of seed to farmers, wliicli is to be sold 

 to tliem "at actual cost for tlie purpose of encouraging 

 intensive farming during the jjeriod of war." It is 

 accepted as practically true that the farmers of .\iner- 

 ica will have to feed the greater part of the world while 

 the war lasts, l)ut tliey will be well paid for it. They 

 are iiot patipers and there is no necessity that the seeds- 

 man should be robbed of his business for their sake. 

 Why should they not purchase their seeds just as they 

 do their automobiles, farm machinery, fertilizers and 

 other commodities? "Actual cost" is presumably the 

 bare price jmid by the government for the seeds in bulk 

 and does not include the cost of handling and dis- 

 tributing, all of which is probably to be ]iaid by the 

 rjovernmcnt. That all this is a most flagrant injustice 

 to the seed dealers of our country requirf^ m. eluci- 

 dation. 



We clij) from a recent number oi The 

 Xurseri/man and Florist the following 

 'note : 



"I am quite in accord with your correspondent, who 

 advocates short lists of varieties. He was referring to 

 roses: and the way he dealt with white ones was admirable. 

 Hy the way, there has for some time been an attempt to 

 alter the name of Prau Karl Druschki to that of Snow 

 Queen. This is absurd. People usually change their 

 names when they have committed a crime or do not want 

 to be known. What has this beautiful white flower done? 

 We should have souls above such petty things." 



The statement has recently been made that a gem in 

 the rose line, recently introduced, could not be sold, on 

 account of its name — Friederichsruhc — which, as is gen- 

 erally known, is the name of Bismarck's last resting 

 place. It is a heavy handicap for any flower to have to 

 seek popularity in this country, burdened with one of 

 the harsh, repellant names often given liy foreign 

 raisers. We recall as an instance in our own country 

 the pink sport of the popular white chrysantlienuira 

 Ivory which was launched under a very uneuphonious 

 and disheartening name. The prediction freely made 

 that it could never be popularized under the proposed 

 cognomen proved true ; "Pink Ivory" it wa5 and nothing 

 else. The nomenclature of flower varieties is certainly 

 in a sufficiently deplorable condition — -what witli the 

 almost endjess list of worthless or too-mueh-alike sorts 

 and the widespread juggling and renaming for the afore- 

 said or other reasons — without our now making another 

 onslaught, primarily because of the animosities bred by 

 the European conflict. Carried to a logic.il conclusion, 

 the ])roposition to discard names having a Teutonic 

 origin in our flower nomenclature would cause a stu- 

 ])endous derangement and confusion, productive of far 

 more harm than good. We submit that there are plenty 

 of other and more useful ways in -which we may give 

 expression to our patrioti.«m than this. 



More 

 names 



